{"id":190,"date":"2008-09-14T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-15T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/09\/caught-in-between.html"},"modified":"2008-09-14T19:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-09-15T00:00:00","slug":"caught-in-between","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/09\/caught-in-between.html","title":{"rendered":"Caught In Between"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I knew what to hope for. I&#8217;ve been waiting six weeks for tomorrow, and now I realize that not only am I unsure that I&#8217;ll learn anything of substance, but I&#8217;m also not sure whether to hope that they&#8217;ll find out what&#8217;s been making me feel crummy or that they&#8217;ll find out that nothing&#8217;s wrong. Either way seems depressing. And so I&#8217;m caught sitting here and worrying about tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>I also wish I knew how to keep myself afloat while feeling crummy. Currently I just withdraw, which is stupid because then I&#8217;m lonely <em>and<\/em> feel crummy. But I haven&#8217;t mastered the trick of being social just then without also being whiny and completely self-absorbed, so I&#8217;m caught sitting on the sidelines, unfit for company and unfit to be alone.<\/p>\n<p>Thank goodness for friends who&#8217;ll come sit with me anyway. And send me virtual chocolate. And tell me not to worry about tomorrow until tomorrow. And generally be good friends.<\/p>\n<p>And that, fair reader, was the designated whine for today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wish I knew what to hope for. I&#8217;ve been waiting six weeks for tomorrow, and now I realize that not only am I unsure that I&#8217;ll learn anything of substance, but I&#8217;m also not sure whether to hope that they&#8217;ll find out what&#8217;s been making me feel crummy or that they&#8217;ll find out that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/2008\/09\/caught-in-between.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Caught In Between<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-me-and-my-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pegasuslibrarian.com\/droplets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}